Improved medicine or cordial



r time sem ewe one.

JOHN SHAPLEY AND A. 1 HUTCHINSON, OF ROSEFIELD, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 92,107, dated June 29, 1869.

IMPROVED MEDICINE OR CORDIAL.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J can SnAPLnYand A. D. HUTonnvsoN, of Rosefield, in the county of Peoria, and in the State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Medical Compound for an Alterative and Invigorating Oordial; and do. hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the ingredients forming the compound, the quantities of each, and the manner of compounding, making, and using the same, viz, the ingredients, and their -respective quantities:

Root of the C'imim'fuga, (bruised,) half an ounce. The plant Scutellaria latert'fiom, three draolnns. Root of the Hydmstis Otmadensis, (pulverized,) half a drac-lnn.

ltootof t he Veratrmn m'm'de, (bruised,) half a drach m'. Root ofthe llfyr'ica cerifco'a,(pulverized,) one drachm. Seed of the Capsicum, (pulverized) twelve grains. Am'mztii cortex, (ground,) two drachms. I Bark of the Oi'miamommn, (grouud,) one drachm. Seed of 00mm, (ln'uised,).one drachm. Seed-of Co'm'a-ndr u'm, (bruised,) one drachm. Seed of Anismn, (bruised,) one drachm.

Alcohol, (specific gravity 0.825,) or pure spirits, twoquarts.

Pure soft water, four quarts. The whole of the above ingredients are macerated for fourteen days; then express and filter, and bottle it for use, coloring it,'if wished, with burned sugar.

The dose for an adult person is from one-half to one \vineglassful, three times a day.

The medicine acts on the system as an alterative and .tonic, or invigorating cordial.

Having thus fully described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 1 The aiterative and invigorating cordial, prepared and compounded, and to be used substantially as described;

In testimony that we claim the foregoing alterae tive and invigorating cordial, we have hereunto set our hands, this 117 th day of May, 1869.

JOHN SHAPLEY. I A. D. HUTOHINSON.

Witnesses:

J OHN DEARBORN, HENRY W. WELLS. 

